Monday, April 23, 2007

After two years, the editor is no better. Maybe it's worse.
You basically can't get decent HTML out of it. OK, what you
get is actually well-formed from an XML standpoint, but it's
semantically bad.

Line endings generate <br/>. Double line
endings produce double <br/>. To actually get real paragraphs,
i.e. <p>, your only choice seems to be to edit the HTML
directly. Why can't two hard returns generate a <p>? It seems
like a no-brainer. And the "Convert line breaks" option
seems to make no difference whether it's "Yes" or "No"; I have
it set to "No" and I still get line breaks inserted (but this
only seems to be in the preview).

Plus, I've found that in Firefox, the easyGestures extension
interacts disastrously with it: If you pop up the pie menu
in the compose area, about a hundred lines of invisible crap
HTML gets inserted.

So I've had it. From now on, I am writing everything in
restructured text, converting it to HTML, and pasting that
into the HTML editor. It sucks much, much less. I get some
extra <span> and classes, but they don't hurt anything.

Friday, March 09, 2007

I stumbled across one of these new bronze dollar coins, and it turned out to be one of the godless ones. W00t!
UPDATE: It turns out its stamped on the outer rim. D'oh! That's a pretty weird place to put it, but at least it's not on the face.
The real ones missing the markings are going for $50 or more on eBay.

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